4 April 2014 In a meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on Tuesday 1 April, the European Commission confirmed that it has launched infringement procedures against Bulgaria and Italy where the Commission has...
4 April 2014 Tobias Billström, Swedish Minister Migration and Asylum policy has called for solidarity with the refugees in the neighbourhood of Syria by the EU taking shared responsibility by resettling refugees. “If all EU Member States were to resettle as many...
4 April 2014 A new report by the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) shows that although most European countries have safeguards in place to ensure that children acquire a nationality in various circumstances where there is a risk of statelessness there are an...
4 April 2014 The European Migration Network (EMN) has published a report on the identification of victims of trafficking in human beings in international protection and forced return procedures in Europe. While acknowledging the potential of EU law in providing a...
4 April 2014 A report published by the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) recommends reforms to the way Member States treat migrants in an irregular situation and persons who assist them. According to FRA, the EU Facilitation Directive, which requires Member States...
4 April 2014 Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, has published a report on his visit to Denmark in November 2013 which states that “considerations related to migration control have primacy over the best interests of the child in actions...
4 April 2014 The European Commission adopted yesterday a Communication to provide guidance to Member States on how to apply the Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification. The Communication adresses a number of issues that were raised by civil society...
4 April 2014 UNHCR and aditus Foundation have published a report on integration in Malta from the perspective of refugees and service providers in the public sector. The study is based on findings from both house visits with 150 refugees, residing in local...
28 March 2014 Based on reports of frequent torture of detainees suspected of belonging to armed groups operating in the North Caucasus, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) this week ruled that, despite diplomatic assurances to the contrary, the extradition of a...
28 March 2014 A course on ‘credibility assessment in asylum claims’, organised by the European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA), Hungarian Helsinki Committee and ECRE, will take place in Madrid on 5-7 May 2014. The course is aimed at NGO legal practitioners, lawyers,...
